HOME-COMING
HE ZHIZHANG
 

I left home young and not till old do I come back,

Unchanged my accent, my hair no longer black.

My children whom I meet do not know who am I.

"Where do you come from, sir?" they ask with beaming eye.
 

Since I left my homeland so many years have passed;

So much has faded away and so little can last.

Only in Mirror Lake before my oldened door

The vernal wind still ripples¹ water as before.

回乡偶书二首
贺知章

少小离家老大回，乡音无改鬓毛衰。
儿童相见不相识，笑问客从何处来。
 
离别家乡岁月多，近来人事半销磨。
惟有门前镜湖水，春风不改旧时波。

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